jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 21:22     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.


It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-


Same here. On a Mac and just clicked on p. 3 of the nurse reduction thread in DC public schools and it redirected. I believe it said 'you've been selected for a Verizon survey.' I think the website was yourresearchgroup.com, something like that.


Was that before 5 pm?
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 21:10     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.


It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-


Same here. On a Mac and just clicked on p. 3 of the nurse reduction thread in DC public schools and it redirected. I believe it said 'you've been selected for a Verizon survey.' I think the website was yourresearchgroup.com, something like that.
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 17:15     Subject: Re:Weird popup

Please report any more problematic ads that appear after this post was posted. I have discovered problems with two different ad networks today. Hopefully that takes care of the problems, but let me know if not.
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 14:30     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.


It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-


Me again. Got a different one. This time it was setupupgrade 12-- warning your flash player is out of date. On the perfect house- garage thread.

I'm on this site too much.


That is the same one I got. I tracked it back through five different redirects but then I couldn't track it back further. They covered their tracks pretty well. I am still trying to find the source. Whatever you do, don't download and/or install that Flash player.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 14:28     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:
jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.


It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-


Me again. Got a different one. This time it was setupupgrade 12-- warning your flash player is out of date. On the perfect house- garage thread.

I'm on this site too much.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 14:17     Subject: Weird popup

jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.


It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 14:13     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.


It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 13:10     Subject: Weird popup

I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 13:03     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if that was related to the weird black band I was getting in the add space that bled through the middle of some of the posts (on a mac)? It stopped when you said you deleted the ad source.


Possibly. I just had an ad redirect to a pop-up that acted like it was the Adobe Flash installer and said I needed a new version of Flash. I have Flash turned off, so obviously that was trying to get me to install a trojan. This must be something different since the other ad network is turned off completely. Unfortunately, I was not capturing traffic when this happened, but now I'll try to track that one down.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 13:00     Subject: Weird popup

I wonder if that was related to the weird black band I was getting in the add space that bled through the middle of some of the posts (on a mac)? It stopped when you said you deleted the ad source.
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 12:55     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:I just got the one that I won multiple gift cards.


These should all be gone by now. If you get any after this post, let me know.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:07     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous wrote:I just got the one that I won multiple gift cards.


Should have said I'm on an iPhone with the latest iOS.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:07     Subject: Weird popup

Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:06     Subject: Weird popup

I just got the one that I won multiple gift cards.
jsteele
Post 10/26/2016 12:02     Subject: Re:Weird popup

I have finally tracked down the ad that was causing this problem and stopped receiving ads from the ad network that was sending it.